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Subject: OLYMPUS (MOUNTAIN), GREECE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BANISHMENT, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whom else have you expelled like a titan forever
Last Line: Left and right like sentinels by your palace door?
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Olympus (mountain), Greece; Titans (mythology)


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1721, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When the great julius on britannia's strand
Last Line: Hush'd was the world when the messiah came.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Odes (as Poetic Form); Olympus (mountain), Greece; Peace; Roman Empire; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


OLYMPUS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With no sharp-sided peak or sudden come
Last Line: To grudge these votive tears to beauty that has been.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Olympus (mountain), Greece


PARTY ON OLYMPUS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When soul love & scrunch love
Last Line: Be more parties on olympus
Subject(s): Hermes (mythology); Olympus (mountain), Greece


SACRED GROUND, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A place to mark the graces, when they come
Last Line: To utter these high secrets reverently.
Subject(s): Muses; Olympus (mountain), Greece


THE GODS LAUGHED ON HIGH OLYMPUS, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think the gods laughed on high olympus as thy
Last Line: We listen -- for your coming, walt whitman!
Subject(s): Olympus (mountain), Greece; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


UNDERTONES, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Apollo's steeds are hastening to their home
Last Line: That greet the night as day her mantle flings.
Subject(s): Olympus (mountain), Greece